| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: because it was Arkansaw law for a prisoner to choose
anybody he wanted to help his lawyer, and Tom had had Uncle
Silas shove him into the case, and now he was botching
it and you could see the judge didn't like it much.
All that the mud-turtle got out of Lem and Jim was this:
he asked them:
"Why didn't you go and tell what you saw?"
"We was afraid we would get mixed up in it ourselves.
And we was just starting down the river a-hunting for all
the week besides; but as soon as we come back we found
out they'd been searching for the body, so then we went
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: a striking account of stupefied amazement together with terror
in a native who had never before seen a man on horseback.
Mr. Stuart approached unseen and called to him from a little distance.
"He turned round and saw me. What he imagined I was I do not know;
but a finer picture of fear and astonishment I never saw.
He stood incapable of moving a limb, riveted to the spot,
mouth open and eyes staring. . . . He remained motionless until
our black got within a few yards of him, when suddenly throwing down
his waddies, he jumped into a mulga bush as high as he could get."
He could not speak, and answered not a word to the inquiries made
by the black, but, trembling from head to foot, "waved with his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: "I'll go," said Amyas: "but Mr. Cary is right. Sir Richard must
know all first."
"And we must have those Jesuits."
"What? Mr. Evans and Mr. Morgans? God help us--they are at my
uncle's! Consider the honor of our family!"
"Judge for yourself, my dear boy," said old Mr. Cary, gently:
"would it not be rank treason to let these foxes escape, while we
have this damning proof against them?"
"I will go myself, then."
"Why not? You may keep all straight, and Will shall go with you.
Call a groom, Will, and get your horse saddled, and my Yorkshire
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